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'^W fand ; that the place was very well flickered from all winds'; 



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but that there was no frefli water to be found, except at 

 fonie diftance inland ; and that, z\xix\ there, little of it was 

 to be got, and that little not good. For this reafon only, 

 and it was a very fufficient one, I determined to anchor on 

 the North fide of the ifland, where, during my laft voyage, 

 I had found a place fit both for watering and landing. 



Tt was not above a league diftant; and yet we did not 

 reach it till five o'clock in the afternoon, being conliderably 

 retarded by the great number of canoes that continually 

 crowded round the fhips, bringing to us abundant fupplies 

 of the produce of their ifland. Amongft thefe canoes, there 

 were fome double ones, with a large fail, that carried be- 

 tween forty and fifty men each. Thefe failed round us, ap- 

 parently, with the fame eafe, as if we had been at anchor. 

 There were feveral women in the canoes, who were, per- 

 haps, incited by curiofity to vifit us ; though, at the fame 

 time, they bartered as eagerly as the men, and ufed the 

 paddle with equal labour and dexterity. I came to an an- 

 chor in eighteen fathoms wattr, the bottom coarfe coral 

 fand ; the ifland extending from Eafl to South Weft ; and the 

 Wefl point of the Wefternmoft cove South Eaft, about three 

 quarters of a mile diftant. Thus- I refumed the very fame 

 ftation which I had occupied when I vifited Annamooka 

 three years before*; and, probably, almoft in the fame 

 place where Tafman, the firft difcoverer of this, and fome of 

 the neighbouring iflands, anchored in 1643 f. 



* See Captain Cook's laft Voyage, Vol. ii. p. g. 



\ See Tafman's account of this ifland, in Mr. Dalrymple's valuable Colleflion of' 

 Voyages to the Pacific Ocean, Vol. ii. p. yg, 80. The few particulars mentionad 

 l)y lafman, agree remarkably with Captain Cook's more extended relation. 



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